Re: Help

[Vratislav Bendel <vbendel at redhat dot com>]

Hello Fieck,

Firstly you need to install the systemtap package via package manager
(depending on what linux-distro you have the command would be for example
'yum' or 'dnf' or 'apt-get' ...)

Then the basics are pretty easy. I'd recommend you to read through the
Tutorial available at sourceware.org
and try out some of the simple scripts described there (At least that's how
I started learning how to use it :) ).

The tutorial:
https://sourceware.org/systemtap/tutorial.pdf
<https://sourceware.org/systemtap/tutorial.pdf>

Additionally, systemtap is very well documented in it's "man-pages"
and also in other documents at https://sourceware.org/
systemtap/documentation.html

Also note that there might be additional packages you'd need to install
like 'kernel-devel' and 'kernel-debuginfo',
however systemtap itself will tell you exactly when you run it.

I hope this will be helpful to you.

Best regards,
Vratislav Bendel